63 Effect on contentious business agreement of death, incapability or change of solicitor
Solicitors Act 1974 (1974 c 47) | Legislation

63  Effect on contentious business agreement of death, incapability or change of solicitor

(1)     If, after some business has been done under a contentious business agreement but before the solicitor has wholly performed it—

(a)     the solicitor dies, or becomes incapable of acting; or

(b)     the client changes his solicitor (as, notwithstanding the agreement, he shall be entitled to do),

any party to, or the representative of any party to, the agreement may apply to the court, and the

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